How does Mastodon figure out the path to a media attachment when the database only stores the filename?
@matrix Maybe a bunch of hashing magic based on the filename and username or something? It's in the source code somewhere.
@xyfdiThere's also a column called shortcode which looks like some sort of hash. I guess maybe from that.
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@matrix Maybe a bunch of hashing magic based on the filename and username or something? It's in the source code somewhere.